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Arab ministerial committee rejects Israels measures to isolate Jerusalem Cairo, Sep 5 (IANS) An Arab ministerial committee here rejected “the Israeli measures to isolate Jerusalem,” stressing that “Israel has no sovereignty over Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian holy sites”. The committee, in charge of international action to confront illegal Israeli policies and measures in Jerusalem, issued a joint statement on Thursday following its 10th meeting on the sidelines of the 164th regular meeting of the Council of the Arab League (AL), Xinhua news agency reported. The committee, formed by the AL in 2021 and chaired by Jordan, includes Iraq,…

Even as the BJP appeared to have settled its differences with its Uttar Pradesh ally NISHAD Party, the ruling party had to move fast on Thursday to contain the damage to its relationship with another coalition partner, the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP), and counter the Opposition that expressed solidarity with its leader and state minister Om Prakash Rajbhar.The ties between the allies hit a new low after the RSS’s student wing ABVP (Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad) allegedly pelted stones at Rajbhar’s home in Lucknow on Wednesday evening during a protest against his comments labelling the outfit’s members “goons”. The…

At that time, the Nizam of Hyderabad ruled 17 districts, five of which—Aurangabad, Beed, Nanded, Parbhani and Osmanabad—fell in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra.The Nizam ordered the recording of information about the population including their caste, religion, occupation, land holdings and other details in his regions such as mountains and rivers. The document that came out of this exercise is referred to as the Hyderabad Gazette.In this document, Marathas engaged in agriculture were referred to as socially backward class and the Nizam had given them reservation in education and government jobs. Now, Jarange-Patil demands that the members of the Maratha…

Gaza City has become city of fear, flight and funerals: UN official United Nations, Sep 5 (IANS) Gaza City, the last refuge for families in the northern Gaza Strip, is fast becoming a place where childhood cannot survive, Tess Ingram, UNICEF Communication Manager for the Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, said. “It is a city of fear, flight and funerals,” Ingram told a daily briefing on Thursday at the UN headquarters in New York, via video conferencing from the Gaza Strip. The world is sounding the alarm about what an intensified military offensive in Gaza City could bring…

Scientists have built a physics-inspired computing system that uses oscillators, rather than digital processing, to solve complex optimization problems. Their prototype runs at room temperature and promises faster, low-power performance. Credit: Shutterstock Experimental device harnesses quantum properties for efficient processing at room temperature. Engineers are working to design computers capable of handling a difficult class of tasks known as combinatorial optimization problems. These challenges are central to many everyday applications, including telecommunications planning, scheduling, and route optimization for travel. Current computing technologies face physical limits on how much processing power can be built into a chip, and the energy required…

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AP) — Prosecutors in Argentina on Thursday charged the daughter of a fugitive Nazi official with trying to hide an 18th-century painting from authorities following revelations that it had been stolen from a Jewish art dealer during World War II.The federal prosecutor in charge of the case announced the cover-up charge a day after Patricia Kadgien, one of the daughters of high-level Nazi officer Friedrich Kadgien, handed “Portrait of a Lady” by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi to the Argentine judiciary eight decades after it was stolen.The fate of the work remains unclear, pending a decision in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’ s strategy of managing a tumultuous relationship with President Donald Trump may be running up against wider regional tensions and lack of willingness by the Trump administration to make concessions, experts say.Since Trump took office, the freshly elected Mexican president has been lauded, and even dubbed a sort of “Trump whisperer,” for being able to offset the brunt of U.S. tariffs that have dealt a blow to other foreign economies. Sheinbaum has done so by cracking down on cartels with a heavier hand than her predecessor, delivering dozens of cartel affiliates to…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s senate dealt a blow to President Javier Milei’s libertarian agenda Thursday, overriding his veto on raising disability benefits, in the first such congressional reversal of his presidency.Lawmakers in the upper house voted 63-7 to strike down Milei’s veto of a bill that boosts financial aid for people with disabilities — far above the two-thirds majority needed.The legislative defeat adds to Milei’s mounting troubles, which include a corruption scandal in the nation’s disability agency that has entangled his influential sister and a weakening peso that has prompted the central bank to raise interest rates to…

Intel, the chip pioneer now partly owned by the U.S. government, told investors that 2026 will be a critical year for its manufacturing technology and should show whether it’s ready to move ahead with a more advanced process. The company won’t know until then whether it’s ready to green-light a method called 14A, Chief Financial Officer Dave Zinsner said at a technology conference in New York City on Thursday. Achieving that milestone has long been touted as a key piece of Intel’s turnaround plan.“Sometime in ’26, we’ll have a good feel for how things are going,” Zinsner said at Citi’s 2025…

OpenAI plans to launch a new AI-powered jobs platform next year to help match employers with candidates who have artificial intelligence skills in a bid to accelerate the technology’s use across businesses and government agencies. The ChatGPT maker will also introduce a new certification program in the coming months that will teach workers how to use AI on the job. OpenAI is working with multiple organizations on the program, including Walmart, the largest private employer in the United States. OpenAI said it plans to certify 10 million Americans by 2030.The company unveiled the jobs initiatives Thursday in conjunction with a White House task force meeting on…